The Creative Entrepreneur Podcast

Are you a musician, writer, visual artist, or some other type of creative entrepreneur? If so, this show is for you! Host Bob Baker is on a mission to help creative people of all kinds use their talents and know-how to make a living and make a difference in the world! The podcast features interviews with a wide variety of people either working full-time or making a major impact in their chosen field, as well as helpful advice from Bob, who has been self-employed in the arts for most of his life (as an author, musician, visual artist, actor, and improv comedy instructor).

On this episode I share an important tweak that can help you make immense progress this week, this month, and this year. It fixes an unfortunate flaw in traditional goal-setting advice. Take a listen and let me know what you think.

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.

Honing your own skills as a musician, visual artist or writer is great. But have you considered teaching and inspiring others to do the same thing?

If you already teach, this will reinforce why you do it. If you don’t currently instruct others how to engage in your craft, this will give you three solid reasons to try it.

This is another installment in a series of daily videos and audio podcasts that cover “30 Ways to Become an Empowered Artist.”

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.

As we head into the stretch with this series, it’s time we talked about goals and action steps and getting stuff done.

There’s a lot of confusing advice out there on how to be productive and effective. Here’s the three-step process I use to make progress, be prolific, and live a fulfilling life.

This is another installment in a series of daily videos and audio podcasts that cover “30 Ways to Become an Empowered Artist.”

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.

As I emphasized in Part 21, consistency and repetition are two keys to long-term success for artists.

Are you staying in front of your most supportive peeps? Are you able to reach your fans in the most impactful way?

Listen to this important segment for the low-down.

This is another installment in a series of daily videos and audio podcasts that cover “30 Ways to Become an Empowered Artist.”

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.

This is another installment in a series of daily videos and audio podcasts that cover “30 Ways to Become an Empowered Artist.”

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.

There’s one mistake I see musicians, artists and writers make all the time.

If you are guilty of this, it’s ticking off your fans and costing you a lot of lost sales.

In this segment I pinpoint that problem and give you some easy solutions.

This is another installment in a series of daily videos and audio podcasts that cover “30 Ways to Become an Empowered Artist.”

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.

Do you ever get frustrated by slow progress? Are you cynical because few people seem to give a damn about your music, your art, your book, or your creative output in general?

Do you find yourself praying for a big break? (Heck, you’d probably settle for a break crumb at this point.)

Here’s one solution: Maybe you just need to get your ASK out there more often!

This is another installment in a series of daily videos and audio podcasts that cover “30 Ways to Become an Empowered Artist.”

It’s part of a month-long crowdsourcing campaign – my first ever – for a new book called “The Empowered Artist” – a call to action for musicians, writers, visual artists, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds.